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Beat August Stress: Essential Oils for Brain Health & Mental Clarity

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I cannot even believe we are already talking about August! Is your 2025 going as fast as mine is? đŸ¤ĒđŸ˜ŗ
 
Yes, August is back to school month, but it’s also a great time to take a breath for a moment and plan for how to manage the last 1/3 of the year……because if the first 2/3rds of 2025 was a blur, chances are high things are only going to accelerate August thru Dec. That’s where brain health comes in!
 
Stress on the brain is highly inflammatory no matter your age, and it’s to everyone’s benefit to navigate stress in a healthy manner with healthy tools. Thankfully, our friends at YL know this too 🙂, and give us tools…. and this month, 3 of them are free (with qualifying purchase).
 
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YL science 🤓 tip: oils high in d-limonene (such as tangerine) may modulate serotonin and dopamine signaling and also appear to support healthy cortisol levels…. the result? helping calm overactive minds, relieving nervous tension, and uplifting mood.
 
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YL science 🤓 tip: vetiver is one of the most studied essential oils for its effects on those people who suffer from chronic “squirrel” đŸŋbrain. It can be so helpful in oil blends to help reduce overthinking and constant mental chatter, overwhelm, and “hyper brain”.
 
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YL science 🤓 tip: Omega 3’s have been proven to protect neurons from oxidative stress and cell death (none of us need dead or dying brain cells 😉 ). Omega 3’s are power packed for other areas of the body too… it’s not just for neurons.
 
If your world appears to be spinning faster and faster in 2025, take some time for self care friends. Do the things. We have access to some pretty amazing tools (you can also learn more about de-stressing in healthy ways in my book, Becoming Your Own Health Detective, Volume II… available on Amazon or now at Seeds of Thyme).
 
xoxo~ liz
 
PS: Have you used vetiver before? I’m so curious about how/ where you use it. If you have a blend/concoction you’ve had success with, please do consider sharing here with everyone. Together we protect and heal!

Flooded Rooms and Faithful Hearts: A Night in Ohio

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I was ready to buy a consonant Monday 😂 after my day on the road.
 
✅ī¸ Iowa
✅ī¸ Illinois
✅ī¸ Indiana
✅ī¸ Ohio
 
Beautiful territory! Lots of rolling hills, đŸŒŊ cornfields, and as the sun was starting to set, sooooo many deer!
 
Zoom in on the church sign. I had to go back and take a pic of the name of the church😂. In all fairness, that was the name of the town I was driving thru, but still so funny🤭.
 
I was pretty beat when I pulled into my hotel for the night in Ohio. The poor clerk at the check in desk was the only employee on duty. She checked me in, and I went to my room and started getting ready for bed….. really looking forward to hitting the pillow….. pulled all my nighttime stuff out of the suitcase, and then changed into my pj’s in the bathroom. I came out of the bathroom barefoot and step onto the carpet in the bedroom part, only to find it soaking wet. đŸĨēđŸĨ´. So, had to put my clothes back on, repack my suitcase and go back to the front desk to ask for a non-flooded room🙄. Bless the clerk’s heart. The hotel was full, and the only empty room was one that hadn’t yet been cleaned from a late checkout guest. So, she went down to clean the room ( now it’s about 10:30pm). She is checking people in and then running back to clean and prep the room I am getting moved into. This goes on for about 30 minutes, and so I go down to the room and see if she needs help…. she is doing a very thorough job… I can just see she is stretched thin.
 
We start talking while I help her put sheets and pillowcases on my bed. I could tell she didn’t feel great (thinking she had a cold), which got us talking. This sweet gal tells me she has been diagnosed with MS for about 10 years, and we start talking about the medical side of it all, and how she found out she had MS to begin with. She tells me this story about visiting her mom in prison, being raised by her grandparents, the diagnosis of MS after she had massive nerves misfiring causing her to stumble repeatedly, and how her neighbors had called CPS because they assumed she was drunk.
 
My heart just melted as she was telling me her story while we worked on my hotel room together. It wasn’t a story to garner pity… we were just talking like friends, and dang I admire her grit and work ethic.
 
I did leave her a little Jesus (and a tip) before I left this morning. She told me she knows Jesus (that made me happy!).
 
If you have an extra moment in your prayer time, please give a quick word over Sami from Ohio. 🙏
~ liz
 
 

Happy May Day with Happy-Making Essential Oils

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Happy May Day friends! (Did anyone else celebrate this fun day when they were growing up? It seems to have disappeared off the holiday map over the past several decades) 🤔
 
Mayday mayday! There’s a different kind of May day too tho. “Mayday” comes from the French phrase “m’aider” which means “help me”.
May is also all about Mama’s Day (May 11th if you haven’t shopped yet!, AND May is also Mental Health Awareness Month.
Indeed, we could all use help now and again 🙏.
 
These three freebies with qualifying purchases are definitely all about helping me, you, and those around us (when we share 😉)!
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Grounding refers to direct skin contact with the surface of the earth. Science has found that grounding in this way has amazing benefits in “supporting proper inflammatory response, helps normalize the day-night cortisol rhythm, reduces pain and stress, and shifts the autonomic nervous system from sympathetic to parasympathetic activation” and more.
 
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4378297/ (Get outside and get yourself some of this FREE goodness!!). The oil blend Grounding is a powerful outdoorsy aroma that can help us reset when life feels a little chaotic. Let’s do our own science experiment and use this blend when you can’t get outside. The mind is a powerful thing, and who knows what benefits you might feel just from the aromatic nudge of diffusing the situation!
 
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Historically, this particular blend was a favorite among Roman soldiers before they went into battle. Times have changed, or have they?? We have our own battles every day. Try applying to your wrists before challenging moments, important social events, or new situations, and see what happens!
 
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The true Swiss Army knife of oils! When in doubt of what to use…. reach for Lavender, and give it a try! This is an oil every home on the planet should keep on hand (in multiple places throughout!…. at work, in the car, in the barn, in the bathroom, by the bed!)
 
All this goodness for free this month! 🙌💖
Tell me an experience you’ve had with one of these oils! đŸŒŋđŸĒģ🌲
Happy May Day!
xoxo~ liz
 
PS: If you’ve not yet experienced Young Living, but would like to, please message me (or someone who has introduced you to Young Living you’d like to work with!)

Wise Valentine’s Advice

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Happy Valentine’s Day friends! When it comes to experts in the “what works” department, go to the ones who have kept their love through the decades. 💖 https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15mi4BYHrF/
Have a beautiful day, and remember that love comes in many languages. What’s your love language? (mine is gifts of service)
 

Spiritual Warfare Intensive 2024

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Friday is the last day to register. I’ve had an amazing journey prepping for this session for Spiritual Warfare Intensive 2024 and can’t wait to share the beautiful and intricate map the Lord has laid out for us connecting mind, body, and spirit health.
(PS: SWI 2024 is an person conference just north of the Texas/Oklahoma border. )
 
Andrea Williams:
 
I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS SESSION with Liz James at our upcoming Spiritual Warfare Intensive September 27-29. We have been back and forth in conversations today about the content…so very good!!
Liz is a licensed pharmacist who practiced in retail and specialty pharmacy (rare disease, oncology, and infertility) for 30 years before leaving “traditional” practice in September 2020 (with her husband’s blessing) because she could no longer practice traditional pharmacy with a clean conscience.
About ten years into her pharmacy career, (prompted by her own health journey), she realized that the pharmaceutical industry (and medical/ insurance industry ) did not necessarily have the patient’s best interest at heart, and consequently spent the last 20 years of her practice (when not behind the counter) in deep study learning alternative methods of healing not involving medication whenever possible. Health consists of mind, body, and spirit health, with spiritual health being the most important and most overlooked aspect. She believes that while there will always be a time and place for western medicine (predominantly emergent care), most healing can occur well outside the confines of what is approved by the AMA, CDC, WHO etc.
Liz is an organic farm girl, and has been involved in the clean food and medical freedom fight for 20 years.
She currently self-employed, teaching people how to live a sustainably healthy life as a NSHC (certification for licensed health professionals only) health coach and mentor (using lab work analysis, medication remediation, natural options and supplements for health and pain management, nutrition, intermittent fasting, and exercise as a Christian faith based yoga instructor). She also has a deliverance ministry with I Will Stand International.
Her course will take a look at what the Bible tell us about health and wellness, how vibration affects health and wellness, how medication affects frequency and vibration, and the affects of drugs on the brain. Liz will show how when parts of the brain are damaged it can be harder to hear the Lord. She will discuss how to restore health, practice spiritual re-connectivity, and how to start looking at food as medicine. Liz will beautifully tie in her wealth of knowledge from her education and career as a pharmacist and make the spiritual connection.
 
Registration ends THIS FRIDAY! Get Registered Here: https://www.andreabygrace.com/intensive2024

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